Recently, the Degrees-of-Freedom (DoF) region of multiple-input-single-output
(MISO) networks with imperfect channel state information at the transmitter
(CSIT) has attracted significant attentions. An achievable scheme is known as
rate-splitting (RS) that integrates common-message-multicasting and
private-message-unicasting. In this paper, focusing on the general K-cell
MISO IC where the CSIT of each interference link has an arbitrary quality of
imperfectness, we firstly identify the DoF region achieved by RS. Secondly, we
introduce a novel scheme, so called Topological RS (TRS), whose novelties
compared to RS lie in a multi-layer structure and transmitting multiple common
messages to be decoded by groups of users rather than all users. The design of
TRS is motivated by a novel interpretation of the K-cell IC with imperfect
CSIT as a weighted-sum of a series of partially connected networks. We show
that the DoF region achieved by TRS covers that achieved by RS. Also, we find
the maximal sum DoF achieved by TRS via hypergraph fractional packing, which
yields the best sum DoF so far. Lastly, for a realistic scenario where each
user is connected to three dominant transmitters, we identify the sufficient
condition where TRS strictly outperforms conventional schemes.Comment: submitted for publicatio
